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Super Stardust HD on the PlayStation 3
was addicting to play. Fast, responsive, challenging and overall was
enjoyable to play. I loved how everything just melded together to
make a grand experience. So when Sony showed off Super Stardust Delta
for their new PlayStation Vita last year I was excited. Of course I
needed to buy a new system to get the game and that's what I did.
Delta is incredibly refined from what was in HD.
Delta's graphics aren't the best of the
Vita launch games, but they are still very impressive. While there
are better looking games at the launch of the new system I had to
remind myself this is a PSN franchise. With that out of the way I
noticed that when the action ramps up there wasn't any lagging. I
didn't have any issues with slow down and absolutely no pop in
occurred while I played. If you haven't picked the game up you are
doing a disservice to yourself because the action gets crazy. As
several enemy types appear on screen I sometime…

The Vita is here, ok not quite here as there is
still a few hours left, but I wanted to spend some time recollecting
with the system that brought handheld gaming out of the “portable
gaming ghetto”. With my top 10 games of the system and some of my
greatest memories of this entertaining platform that did so much for
my gaming life.
I didn't get the PSP when it first
launched. Back when it launched I was a sophomore in high school and
didn't have money to buy it and was out of the Christmas and birthday
seasons. So I was out of luck when March 2005 rolled around. I just
didn't have any means to get the system. I remember X-Play and Attack
of the Show (when G4 gave a damn about gaming and not reruns of
decades old episodes of COPS) and they were covering everything from
the launch. Dissecting the system and the launch title games
alongside comparable DS titles. Ridge Racer on PSP vs Ridge Racer DS
was an unfair battle on Electric Playground although it was an interesting co…

Alright, so you're all joining me as I'm testing out a new mobile app for my phone right now. As in live! (not really, but I can't wait to do stuff live sometime soon). This app is from the Blogger team at Google and allows me to write up articles for Just 1 More Level even when I'm away from my laptop or desktop computer.So far the tool set is very similar to the kit I have when usually working on my laptop. It is fairly easy to access everything I need to post an article from links to the typical fonts and formats.Seems pretty cool to me and this will help me post things up to the site as things unfold whether I'm at a store trying out a demo/hardware or over at a friends house and don't have my laptop with me.And no this is not the last new thing I will be trying out for the site. (referencing the title of the post)

(here is an article about an out of no where thought I
had recently. So here is the first ever Random Notebook Article.)

Right now I believe that GameStop's average on Vita
pre-orders (not including the First Edition bundle) is 30 pre-orders
per store, for 5000 stores. That would put the number at 150k from
GameStop alone. Since I don't work at places like Wal-Mart, Target, Best
Buy or Amazon, I'm not sure what the average per store (or user base)
is. But I would think that Best Buy should be very much on
par with (if not a little bit over) what GameStop can do. So let's
say Best Buy matches what GameStop does. So that would be 300k
between the two massive store chain companies. Wal-Mart and Target have bigger markets of people that
come through. A larger number of people coming through the doors,
doesn't mean they would have more pre-orders, but it does mean they
will have a greater chance of getting more than BB and GS. I will
give Wal-Mart 230k alone plus an additio…

Do you wanna know what sucks when
you're the only person writing for a video game blog over the
experiences you have when playing games? When there is nothing to
write about, because you're in a rut. I'm right in that rut. When
things, like life, happen I'm stuck playing no games. I can't very
well write about games when there are no gaming experiences to write
about. You know what I'm saying?
Right now I'm stuck between not having
much interest in my current handheld experiences; I traded in my PSP
towards Vita stuff last week and my 3DS just gets used for
StreetPass. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is getting played
sporadically, but not to the extent that it was when I first started
playing it. My gaming with it has nothing to do with the quality of
the game itself just that the PS Vita is looming overhead and that
has all my excitement. So trying to play a DS Final Fantasy spin-off
game ahead of the PS Vita has made it difficult to say the least.

Over this past weekend I played Skyrim and NBA Jam: On Fire Edition. This was the first time in several weeks where I've been able to just game for an extended period of time. Playing the games that are on my back burner. In a total hours count I believe I put in around sixteen hours over a three day span in Skyrim and added about three more hours into NBA Jam. So overall I spent almost a full twenty-four hour day into gaming over three days...been a very long time since I've been able to do that.

Of course the weekend had to come to end and things are back to a busy schedule again. This will be my final week of seemingly endless work for my extracurricular activities for my school. Things will start to open up a little bit more very soon.

The PlayStation Vita launches in
roughly three weeks (two weeks if you got the First Edition
pre-ordered) and I got to go hands on with the system at work. I was
already interested in the Vita, but being able to go hands on with it
made this device even more desirable. In addition to the trailers
I've seen and the games that have been announced for it so far have
had me sold on the Vita since it was unveiled last year at a special
PlayStation event. Before that unveiling I really felt my excitement
for new hardware was never going to improve. I didn't want any new
game consoles and I thought my DSi XL and PSP were doing just fine
with the game libraries they had. The stuff I saw on the 3DS didn't
excite me and even after the Vita was unveiled in early 2011 my
overall feeling didn't change when Nintendo started talking about the
Wii U at E3.
Granted I still bought the 3DS last May
in my excitement for the release of Star Fox 64 3D in the following
September. So I guess…